Johannes Madabbar

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Ethiopian literature

...About 1600, nevertheless, a few substantial works in Geʿez appeared, including
Hawi, an enormous theological encyclopaedia translated by Salik of Debre Libanos; a
History by
Johannes Madabbar, bishop of Nikiu, containing an account of the Arab conquest of Egypt, valuable since the Arab original has been lost; and
Fetha Negast (“Justice of the Kings”),...